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Hi All (having just got off the phone?with Tim) If your radio is doing weird things, before you open a support case, please make sure that NodeRed or some other?external software is not causing the problem. This can be the following programs (but not limited to)
Thanks for help!? :) Mike va3mw |
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I am probably the guilty party/poster child for Mikes's phone call from Tim. My Flex 6600 has experienced what I call, "uncommanded" ?short duration shutdown, and reboots.? I use the Flex remote on/off with a relay controlled?from Node-Rd. I submitted a ticket. When Tim asked for the Flex Front Button colors, during the experience, it dawned on me that the probable cause was a short duration operation from Node-Red causing the remote relay to cycle.? I have added some nodes to the Raspberry GPIO pins, for the relay, to send the time of any on/off events at the pins to a flow.set (so it is retained in memory) to catch the next uncommanded shutdown. Of course, there have been zero instances since I installed the relay monitor. There could be one other ?(6700) candidate for Tim's wrath today....but we may never know. ?(humor) Alan WA9WUD |
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Hi Alan,
Thanks for sharing.? Our club is in the midst or integrating a FlexRadio 6600 into our station for remote operation.? Like you, we're going to use a RPi to control relay, including remote on/off. I chose to use FTDI USB relays vs GPIO relays, but only because of the convenience of using a USB cable to a centrally located relay board/box.? The trade-off is that things are rather serial? - using crelay - but it works flawlessly.?? So, now I'm pondering, is USB likely to be more resilient to "short duration" drops in the GPIO? Tks es 73, Andy VA3CW |
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Hey Alan: |
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I am not saying who or what caused me to draft the original email.?? Not to worry, it was all in good fun and thought I would pass on the message.?? Mike va3mw On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 11:35 PM Neal Pollack <nealix@...> wrote:
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Neal AB6G